Web Scraping
Veek M
vek.m1234 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 12 10:18:45 EST 2016
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 11:07 pm, Veek M wrote:
>
>> 121sukha wrote:
>>
>>> I am new to python and I want to use web scraping to download songs
>>> from website. how do I write code to check if the website has
>>> uploaded a new song and have that song automatically be downloaded
>>> onto my computer. I know how to use the requests.get() module but i
>>> am more interested in knowing how to download and save every new
>>> song that the website uploads on the site. I would extremely
>>> appreciate the help from anyone. Thanks!
>>
>> What you're doing is illegal
>
> Really? Everywhere in the world? And you're sure of this because
> you're a lawyer?
'probably illegal' (i did mentally assume he's from India - the nick is
very indianish and since I am Indian and noticed many badly formatted
posts I felt obliged to help out)
> Even if the website uses public domain or freely licenced songs?
>
> Even if the downloads count as fair use, time-shifting or
> format-shifting?
ah true
>> but Youtube/websites have a lot of stuff up
>> that's easily accessible - the moral issue seems ambiguous especially
>> if you use adblocker..
>
> Doesn't seem ambiguous to me.
> Or are you one of those people who think that you are a thief for
> leaving the room when ads are playing on TV?
>
> https://yro.slashdot.org/story/02/05/02/0550214/turner-ceo-pvr-users-are-thieves
yep as in.. do the networks have a right to tempt me
>
> Downloading may, or may not, violate the terms of use of the website.
> But you *literally* cannot watch the video without downloading it: in
> order for the video to play in your browser, it must be downloaded.
> That's the end of the story. "Streaming video" is just another way of
> saying "downloading video, where the video is deleted afterwards".
>
> (Actually, streaming video is just another way of saying "lots of
> pauses, stuttering, dropped frames and a really awful user
> experience".)
also true, but gramophone records were an inconvenience we put up with
lacking a better solution.. so an inconvenience strictly speaking
doesn't imply you can break the law.. however, is it fair to tempt us
with these delights.. hence my moral confusion..
Anyway.. yes I agree that I have no business telling people off (and
that was not my intention) it was a succinct warning of the dangers..
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